<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536417" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XLV</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I followed dumb and shrinking like a thief<br>Close in her shadow from the women's guess,<br>Yet ruthlessly betrayed for my cheeks' grief<br>From head to foot in the tall pier--glasses.<br>My vagabond attire, my coat all rags,<br>My tattered plaid stained with the summer's dust,<br>The sash which bound my waist all gaps and jags,<br>With gaiters frayed and such sad shoes as must<br>Have served Ulysses at his journey's close;<br>All these I saw revealed to my disgrace,<br>My hat still crowned with its last Alpine rose,<br>And what she had called my ``John the Baptist's face''<br>Red with confusion and the rage of youth,<br>I saw it all, the whole remorseless truth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536417" data-title="Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XLV de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="I followed dumb and shrinking like a thief Close in her shadow from the women's guess, Yet ruthlessly betrayed for my cheeks' grief From head to foot in the tall pier--glasses. My vagabond attire, my coat all rags, My tattered plaid stained with t..."></div> </div> </div>

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